Manitoba Emissions, Manitoba Solutions – This 15-minute video presents an overview of Manitoba’s greenhouse gas emission profile; where our GHG emissions come from and what the recent trends have been. It also suggests some ideas for solution within the Manitoba context. It was produced in 2016 and features Climate Change Connection’s own Curt Hull. If you like this presentation, we can come to you. You can request a presentation for your school, business, or organization.

The Implications of Climate Change in Manitoba – This 14½-minute video features Dr Danny Blair from the University of Winnipeg. Danny provides an overview of the changes that have occurred in Manitoba’s climate in the last few decades. He then uses the computer projections compiled by the Prairie Climate Centre in their Climate Atlas project to give us insight into what we might expect in the future.

Chasing Ice – Chasing Ice received the 2014 News and Documentary Emmy® award for Outstanding Nature Programming. The film made its TV debut on the National Geographic Channel on April 19, 2013. Since that day, Chasing Ice has screened in more than 172 countries and on all 7 continents. (See Lesson plan below)

Years of Living Dangerously – Years of Living Dangerously is a 9-part Showtime documentary television series focusing on climate change that premiered on April 13, 2014. James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and clean energy investor and environmental activist Daniel Abbasi are executive producers of the series. The weekly episodes feature celebrity investigators, who each have a history of environmental activism, and well-known journalists, each of whom have a background in environmental reportage. These “correspondents” travel to areas around the world and throughout the U.S. affected by global warming to interview experts and ordinary people affected by, and seeking solutions to, the impacts of climate change.

Learning guides

Guide for Sustainable Schools in Manitoba – The vision of this Guide is for all schools in Manitoba and their communities to be sustainable. The Guide invites schools to take a whole-school approach to sustainability by exploring sustainability through curriculum, in addition to through real-life learning experiences, improvements in school management of resources and facilities (e.g., energy, waste, water, biodiversity, schoolyard design, and purchasing of products and materials), and associated social and financial issues.

Community Connections

There are many great organizations working on climate change in Manitoba. Many of which are willing to help schools and teachers learn more about the issues and to assist in action projects. Here are some we would like to highlight:

Green Action Centre – GA Centre promotes greener living through environmental education and encourage practical green solutions for schools. Some of the programs they run are Active and Safe Routes to School, Environmental Speakers Bureau, and Composting.

FortWhyte Alive – FWA provides a wonderful facility for getting students out exploring nature. Some of their programs include: From Farm to Fork, Due North: The Changing Arctic, and Weathering the Climate.

Assiniboine Park and Zoo – Assiniboine Park offers many curriculum-linked, interdisciplinary programs for students in Pre-K through Grade 12. All of our programs encourage a student’s inherent curiosity for the natural world and bring lessons to life. Some of their programs include: Arctic Ecology, Polar Bears, and the Role of Zoos in a Changing Climate.